541 books (28 pages) in this category
Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
by Marcia M. Gallo
<p>In <em>"No One Helped"</em> Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page ...
ISBN: 9780801455896
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eBookby Margaret Drinkall
<SPAN STYLE= "" >19th Century Barnsley Murders is a telling account of crimes in the Barnsley area that have remained unpublished for more than a century. The book reveals the dark heart of the town and reflects not only the poverty and squalor ...
ISBN: 9781473830158
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eBookThe Case of the Sydney Double Murders
by Ram Tiwary
On 15 September 2003, two Singaporean students at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, were brutally murdered in their apartment. More than eight months later, their housemate and fellow ...
ISBN: 9789814634755
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eBookThe Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst
by Matt Birkbeck
<p><strong>The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary <em>The Jinx</em> - scheduled to air on Fox in Australia in May - have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst's NYPD files, is the
ISBN: 9781925324181
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eBookRevised and updated
by Laura Thompson
<p>Laura Thompson re-examines the truths behind one of post-war Britain's most notorious murders: the bludgeoning to death of nanny Sandra Rivett in a Belgravia basement on 7 November 1974. Lord Lucan, found guilty of the murder, was only ...
ISBN: 9781788545143
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eBookThe chilling true story of the woman nobody believed
by T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
<p><em><strong>It was an easy case to close until two detectives cracked it back open...</strong></em></p> <p><strong>'I pretty much read <em>A False Report</em> in one sitting. It is deeply disturbing but brilliant. I hope it helps with the ...
ISBN: 9781473539433
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eBookby Paul Burns
<p>On 27 August 1979, Paul Burns's life changed for ever. Travelling through Warren Point in Northern Ireland when the IRA detonated two massive bombs, he was involved in a devastating explosion - eighteen soldiers were killed that day; Paul was
ISBN: 9780007354382
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eBookA Long Way from Home: Part 1 of 3
by Cathy Glass
<p>The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So ...
ISBN: 9780008275921
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eBookA Mother’s Journey Through Grief
by Sarah Pullen
<p><strong>What would you do if a stranger told you your son was going to die?</strong></p> <p>Silas is ten years old when the headaches start. When the diagnosis arrives, his parents are told they have until Christmas… maybe. And so begins ...
ISBN: 9781783523856
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eBookby Edgar Allan Poe
<p>He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780241252338
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eBookthe killing of Rebecca Ryle
by Martin McKenzie-Murray
<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NED KELLY AWARDS, BEST TRUE CRIME CATEGORY</b></p> <p>In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing would mystify investigators, ...
ISBN: 9781925307511
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eBookby Michael Mason
<p>When Germany occupied Hungary in 1944, fifteen-year-old Miklos Friedman drew on his wits to survive. Recruited into forced labour, sent to a ghetto and, ultimately, to the Nazi camps of Auschwitz and Mühldorf, Miklos never stopped fighting to
ISBN: 9781897470961
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eBookThe Life of a Global Adventurer
by Michael Dobbs-Higginson
<p>A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before ...
ISBN: 9781785630385
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eBookby Mona Anderson
<p>The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand</p> <p>Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two ice ...
ISBN: 9781775491453
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eBookby Gideon Haigh
<p>As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - ...
ISBN: 9781760144166
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eBookA Taste of Love – The Memoirs of Bohemian Irish Food Writer Theodora FitzGibbon
Adventures in Food, Culture and Love
by Theodora FitzGibbon
<p><strong>Discover the many lives of free-spirited and much-loved <em>Irish Times</em> cookery writer Theodora FitzGibbon</strong> </p> <p><em>‘I have starved in some of the most beautiful places in the world …’</em> </p> <p>The <em>Irish ...
ISBN: 9780717166848
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eBookwhen things may not be as they seem
by Robin Bowles
<p>This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to be accidents at all.
ISBN: 9781925548853
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eBookA Journalist’s War With Organised Crime
by Russell Findlay
<p>Russell Findlay spent decades taking on the most dangerous men in Scotland’s criminal underworld. Organised crime clans such as the Daniels, Lyons and McGoverns were unmasked by Findlay and his colleagues at the Sunday Mail and Scottish Sun. ...
ISBN: 9780857909442
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eBookby Felicia Carmelly
<p>Transnistria, Romania, did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrived in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators. After surviving three years ...
ISBN: 9781897470978
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eBookAdequately Explained by Stupidity?
Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies
by Morag G. Kerr
Tunnel vision or organised cover-up? How the Lockerbie investigation got the wrong man. Twenty-five years after Maid of the Seas crashed on the town of Lockerbie, this groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new perspective on the ...
ISBN: 9781783067800
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